From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 28 14: 3:39 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C5A37B619; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA31434; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:03:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:03:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Alexander Langer Cc: Glenn Johnson , John Baldwin , "David O'Brien" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Brian Somers Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <20000628172512.B52859@cichlids.cichlids.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Glenn Johnson (gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov): > > > Just my 2 cents here but isn't FreeBSD suppose to be a server OS? So > > shouldn't a server OS have a DHCP server in the base system? > > No, we don't have WWW and other common services in the base system, > too. But we do have a long obsolete bootpd (bootpd(8)), and the DHCP client and server are shipped in the same build package by the same vendor (ISC) under a BSD license. We could easily remove the bootp support, gain the DHCP support, resulting in newer and better written software (assertion) without increase in bloat. :-) Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message